Okay, I'm going to try to do this quickly. I don't like depriving you, but if I take too long getting this up, then I won't be able to watch Speed Racer tonight. And if I don't watch Speed Racer tonight, I might not ever watch it. And if I don't ever watch it, I'll never know what the deal is with Racer X. Who is that guy??? Why do they have a monkey??? Why in the crap does the car need to jump??? Inquiring mind needs to know!

I'm also going to take a tablet of acid and enjoy all the colors. Acid does come in tablet form, right? I don't know. I don't really have any acid. I wouldn't know what to do with it if I did. I don't know anything about drugs. Excuse me while I go inject myself with some marijuana.

But I plan on simulating the acid experience by watching Speed Racer.

So that's that.

New York Giants @ Denver / Carolina @ New York Jets:

1. YoungWillis (8)
2. these3words (12)
3. rlott#42, Fooch, Mike Hawk (14)
4. jtoj (18)
5. sundaysfinest, groug (20)

Jacksonville @ 49ers:

1. bayboy (20)
2. whobob, bonbrillio, rlott#42 (22)
3. JoeO, ro128487, cassusriff, sfgfan, mpotter14, LASVEGASNINER, CB30, howtheyscored, etb2, Fooch, Mike Hawk (28)
4. danknerd49, SpurredOn (30)
5. ZeroIndulgence, sundaysfinest, Dub4lif3, Ten-Man, YoungWillis, nocal81, jtoj, jpgarfunkle, Fifty NINERS, these3words, bignerd (34)

New England @ New Orleans:

1. gbears16 (8)
2. danknerd49, Mike Hawk (14)
3. ZeroIndulgence, whobob, TheTealDeal, Drew K, urnext, wjackalope, these3words, leaping_larry (20)
4. 49erLou, hudd07, beecharmer (22)
5. J2daZ, alwaysforgiven821, rlott#42, howtheyscored, Fooch, grantmp, SpurredOn (28)

Pittsburgh @ Baltimore:

1. whobob (0) - A perfect prediction!
2. Dub4lif3, bayboy, hudd07, wjackalope, leaping_larry (2)
3. 49erLou, LASVEGASNINER, CB30, Ninerfromacrossthepond, these3words (6)
4. ZeroIndulgence, TheTealDeal, ro128487, YoungWillis, sfgfan, bonbrillio, mpotter14, gbears16, rlott#42, etb2, beecharmer, Fooch, bignerd (8)
5. Ten-Man (12)

Indianapolis @ Houston:

1. gbears16 (0) - Another perfect!
2. nocal81 (2)
3. Ten-Man, these3words (6)
4. ro128487, CB30, howtheyscored (8)
5. YoungWillis (10)

Arizona @ Tennessee:

1. J2daZ (2)
2. Iwantwinners (6)
3. danknerd49, whobob, TheTealDeal, cassusriff, Ten-Man, LASVEGASNINER, beecharmer, Ninerfromacrossthepond, Fifty NINERS (8)
4. wjackalope, rlott#42, leaping_larry (12)
5. PHUT!, JoeO, ro128487, bayboy, Dubs fan in Boston, nocal81, howtheyscored, etb2, Mike Hawk (14)

And that makes our week 12 leaderboard looks like:

Hoo-boy! Obviously, whobob had a ridiculous week, making a perfect prediction and climbing way the heck up the ladder. Then, our other perfect prediction this week was gbears16 - putting together another very fine week and moving into third place!

There was a shift at the top, so congratulations to ro128487 for taking back control of first place. How long will it last? Will groug make his way back up? Will it be me? If I were a betting man, I'd lay down a good bet on me. Good thing I'm not a betting man.

Our friend wjackalope had a nice week, and climbed some. YoungWillis, these3words, ZeroIndulgence, and Mike Hawk all had nice weeks.

I thought it would be fun to mention that we actually got two Jaguars fans on the boards this week, and one of them did pretty darn well! TheTealDeal and alwaysforgiven821 both came visiting for this week's game, and dropped some decent predictions on our faces. But I'll gladly give them some points after their team lost so badly to ours.

That's all this time. Sorry if I missed you. Check your scores. Yada yada.

A merry little surge of electricity piped by the automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard. Surprised - it always surprised him to find himself awake without prior notice - he rose from the bed, stood up in his multicolored pajamas, and stretched. Now, in her bed, his wife Iran opened her gray, unmerry eyes, blinked, then groaned and shut her eyes again.